I have been messing around with some of the Coldfusion UI components and i have to say i am pretty dissapointed with how bloated these libraries are.

The first one i am going to mention is the <CFFILEUPLOAD> component. It is a single swf embed component yet there are 750Kb of javascript library files that get included, 600Kb of which is a "ext-all.js" file.  This is a bit rediculous if you ask me.  There has to be a better way to determine what javascript gets included in the request rather than just throwing everything in there.

The other one i will mention is <CFMESSAGEBOX>.  Again the same amount of javascript to do such a minimal task.

I can appreciate that a lof of these things might be directed at "non develoepers" but i can't understand the amount of effort that does into these sorts of functionality when there are more pressing functionality items that are going to be more useful for developers.

The other thing that has anoyed me about this tag is that they are using an attribute to pass in the content of the box rather than using an open/close tag method and putting the content between them.